Keywords: Popular Culture
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 April 2011
15 Comments
John Paul II was as much a Polish Catholic as Mary MacKillop was Australian. His moral force eroded the legitimacy of the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The controversy about his beatification is not about his virtue or historical significance, but about his legacy to the Church.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Greg Foyster
- 06 April 2011
14 Comments
Before being elected Premier, Barry O'Farrell described Sydney's new 200km bike network as 'crazy' and an 'inconvenience' to motorists. Given cycling's overwhelming benefits to society, what's really crazy is O'Farrell's populist pledge to keep Sydney car-dependent into the future.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Walladge
- 17 March 2011
20 Comments
The NRL and national soccer competition already play matches on Good Friday, a move which they made without input from church groups. Now is the time for churches to collaborate with the AFL on a Good Friday match, or else it will be left behind again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 04 March 2011
14 Comments
We wear op-shop outfits, read classics, watch Q&A and sip lattes. There are puerile vanities here, but who doesn't entertain such vanities? Bogans, of course.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 04 February 2011
8 Comments
In many Asian cultures paleness is an indication of class and beauty. But why would Asian women want to look like Pamela Anderson? For the same reason white women do: there's a globalised beauty standard that is gendered, racialised, and hierarchical.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Chou
- 27 January 2011
8 Comments
Last week's media coverage of Chinese President Hu Jintao's Washington visit focused on Senator Harry Reid's offhand remarks. Reid called Hu is a 'dictator', describing his government as 'different' to that of the US. But China is on a path towards a form of democracy that may be no less democratic than many western nations.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 January 2011
18 Comments
Some advocates of monarchy have jumped on the film The King's Speech as evidence that Australia needs a monarch. Monarchists often argue like this when they want to personalise the constitutional debate by concentrating on a member of the Royal family with attractive features.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 December 2010
5 Comments
I respect the work of exorcists who offer appropriate pastoral care to those acutely troubled. I also believe it is not generally helpful to give prominence in the churches to demonic possession and exorcism.
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